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Alaska, United States of America, U.S.A.

Title: "Across the top of the World - Amundsen Expedition arrive at Nome after 2,700 mile flight across North Pole's unknown Arctic wastes".

M/S of eight men in cold weather clothes; the squat and stand in two rows as if they are posing for a group photograph. C/U of the men; they seem in good spirits, some smoke cigarettes. C/U of Amundsen dressed fur lined hat; he smiles amiably at the camera.

Intertitle: "The Norge was damaged in forced landing at Teller".

L/S of the wreck of a polar airship on the ice and snow beside the sea, several men are surveying the wreck. C/U of the wreck, it appears to have a large tarpaulin draped over it. Various shots of the mangled wreckage of the airship.